Wesley’s Kitchen, Josefstrasse, Zurich

Feb
2015

12. February 2015
  • Wesley’s Kitchen, Josefstrasse, Zurich
    Tee Ei
  • Wesley’s Kitchen, Josefstrasse, Zurich
    Shanghai Bao
  • Wesley’s Kitchen, Josefstrasse, Zurich
    Knuspriges Siedfleisch mit Gemüse
  • Wesley’s Kitchen, Josefstrasse, Zurich
    Rechnung

Shanghai Street Food is what Wesley’s Kitchen promises to deliver. The place is takeaway and instore dining with about 20 seats available to patrons, features three daily specials and a small menu. The first small dish is a revelation – a piece of tofu cooked in tea served on a marinated egg with a slightly spicy sauce. While tough to eat (try balancing a half egg with chopsticks), the tofu was actually delicious, full flavoured and with depth, something new for sane people (aka carnivores) like myself.

Next up was the best dish of the whole meal – the Shanghai Boa or dumplings. Crispy on the bottom, filled with a meatball and sauce, some ginger and other spices – a great morcel of food! The key thing is to bite off the side of the dumpling, tilt it so that the opening points towards the sky, add some sauce of your liking and then devour it. It needs skill – I dropped some inner dumpling meat ball on the table but eventually you’ll get it. After all it took 6000 years to perfect the use of chopsticks and eating soup hasn’t been addressed perfectly even as of today.

The daily special was a boiled beef in a crispy fashion, with vegetables and rice. While I am convinced this is what you’ll get in Shanghai the slight oilyness of the vegetables and the surprising texture of crispy outside and tibits of boiled beef fat are more playing towards the experienced connaisseurs palate. The Wesley Kitchen has great potential, personally I might believe that a more Dim Sum style place (as in only Dim Sum tibits) could be more popular. My recommendation is to get the egg and grab some of the dumplings and you’ll be a very happy camper. Especially since one of the dumplings cost a ridiculously cheap 2 Swiss Francs (Feb 2015). Grab 5 and you’ve eaten a decent lunch.

11 Comments

  1. Sounds yum. So is there a dim sum place in Zurich? We’re craving it so much with the kids!

    • The Zen in Adliswil has a special Dim Sum menu to choose from on Sunday afternoons, but no carts or anything like that http://www.restaurant-zen.ch/deutsch/dim-sum/

      • Thanks! Need to check it out as the Peking duck I had so far was lame (pun intended)!
        How do you know I meant carts and trays???

        • You’ve come to “the” restaurant blog in Switerland 😉

          • one of the best two 😉

  2. Ok so maybe this is slghtly far away for a tip BUT if either of you is ever in Hong Kong and want a real local experience. You should try Maxims City Hall Restaurant. Big restaurant, LOUD and raucous. A throng of little old ladies pushing carts about at 2o/kmh. None speak English so you need your hands and nose. The dim sum is fresh and great value for money. If you get there early enough you can get a harbour view table by the window. If you are not sure what to order ask the next table who will then have an argument about what is best for you to try 🙂

    • Sound great! And the excitement of not knowing wether it’s beef or dog in the steamed dumpling is unbeatable 🙂

  3. Gweilo knows his way. City Hall in HK is a place for good dimsum. For therealpicky, the “dog myth” and joke is very 20th century. Perhaps that’s why real decent chinese food provider never found foot in Zürich. Shall be trying out Wesley’s kitchen this week.

    • Believe it or not – I have eaten dog in various parts of Asia hence it’s not just a myth. But I agree it’s an old one.

      • They say that in Appenzell one eats dog too, do they ? Hae you tried?

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